The United States attorney general (AG) is the head of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and is the chief law enforcement officer of the federal government of the United States. The attorney general serves as the principal advisor to the president of the United States on all legal matters. The attorney general is a statutory member of the Cabinet of the United States.
The solicitor general of the United States,is the fourth-highest-ranking official within the United States Department of Justice (DOJ),represents the federal government in cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. The solicitor general is appointed by the president and reports directly to the United States attorney general.
A solicitor general is a government official who serves as the chief representative of the government in courtroom proceedings. In systems based on the English common law that have an attorney general or equivalent position,the solicitor general is often the second-ranked law officer of the state and a deputy of the attorney general. The extent to which a solicitor general actually provides legal advice to or represents the government in court varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction,and sometimes varies between individual office holders in the same jurisdiction.
United States attorneys are officials of the U.S. Department of Justice who serve as the chief federal law enforcement officers in each of the 94 U.S. federal judicial districts. Each U.S. attorney serves as the United States' chief federal criminal prosecutor in their judicial district and represents the U.S. federal government in civil litigation in federal and state court within their geographic jurisdiction. U.S. attorneys must be nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate,after which they serve four-year terms.
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama is a federal court in the Eleventh Circuit.
William Holcombe Pryor Jr. is an American lawyer who has served as the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit since 2020. He was appointed as a United States circuit judge of the court by President George W. Bush in 2004. He is a former commissioner of the United States Sentencing Commission. Previously,he was the attorney general of Alabama,from 1997 to 2004.
Barbara Dale Underwood is an American lawyer serving as the solicitor general of New York. She was first appointed to the position in January 2007 by Andrew Cuomo,who was then serving as the state's attorney general. Underwood was reappointed in 2011 by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
Maynard Nexsen PC is an American full-service law firm based in Birmingham,Alabama. The firm has more than 550 lawyers and professionals in 25 offices nationwide. The firm offers services in more than 100 practice areas,spanning corporate,regulatory and litigation work.
Kevin Christopher Newsom is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Stephen Elliott Boyd is an American lawyer who served as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legislative Affairs from 2017 to 2021. He currently serves as Chief of Staff to Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville.
John "Jay" Edward Town is an American attorney and former government official who served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from August 2017 to July 2020. Town had previously served as a senior prosecutor in the Madison County District Attorney's Office.
Stephen Robert McAllister is an American attorney,academic,and former government official. He served as the United States Attorney for the District of Kansas from 2018 to 2021. He also serves as the E.S. &Tom W. Hampton Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Kansas School of Law. He was formerly the Solicitor General of Kansas.
Toby Jay Heytens is an American attorney and law professor who is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He served as the solicitor general of Virginia from 2018 to 2021.
Andrew Lynn Brasher is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. He is a former solicitor general of Alabama.
Martha Maria Pacold is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Brantley David Starr is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
Sarah Keeton Campbell is an American lawyer who has served as a justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court since 2022.
Doris Lenea Pryor is an American lawyer who has served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since 2022. She served as a United States magistrate judge for the Southern District of Indiana from 2018 to 2022.
Elizabeth Napier "Bessie" Dewar is an American lawyer who has served as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court since 2024. She previously served as the state solicitor of Massachusetts from 2016 to 2024. Prior to serving as the state solicitor,she had served as the assistant state solicitor under former state solicitor Peter Sacks.
Elbert Lin is an American lawyer who served as the first Solicitor General of West Virginia from 2013 to 2017. He is currently a partner and chair of the Issues and Appeals practice group at Hunton Andrews Kurth as well as a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States.
